Brussels, 22/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - After several hours of deliberations, Thursday evening, the Permanent Representatives of EU Member States parted having decided to consult their capitals on the interpretation to give to certain parts of the provisional text of the Treaty of Nice proposed to them by the French Presidency so as, in particular, to iron out the contradictions observed in the text regarding the threshold for a qualified majority and the number of minority blocking votes....